In Democratic Individuality, I argued that at a high level of abstraction, modern conservatives, liberals and radicals believe that the best economic, social and political institutions foster each person’s individuality. Their differences are largely empirical or social theoretical. All clash with modern authoritarians. I will take up practical issues such as torture and the lineage of the neocons and link them to larger issues in how we conceive a decent regime, locally and internationally.

Category: democratic internationalism

Jesus, he said in his father’ church in Atlanta spoke of avatars in other flocks whose words in this life would awaken even Gandhi, he said in his father’s church in Atlanta many more spoke with Vinoba Bhave of farmer cooperatives fresh from being stabbed in Harlem fresh from India Bhoodan is that avatar Thich …

I am John Evans professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and author of Marx's Politics:Communists and Citizens (Rutgers, 1980), Democratic Individuality (Cambridge, 1990), Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy (1999) and Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence (Chicago March, 2012).